"I grew up not knowing much about her besides the fact that she was very sick for much of her life due to kidney infections and kidney failure. It wasn't until late high school that I learned the woman who I considered to be like my grandmother growing up was romantically involved with my grandfather while he was still married to my biological grandmother, who was growing progressively sicker from thosee kidney problems."
"A few years ago, when Ancestry and 23andMe became popular, my grandma herself gave my dad and his brother, who he had always believed to be his full brother, kits for Christmas. Well, guess what. Not only did their results show they were half brothers, it also showed absolutely no Cuban ancestry on my dad's side. I also have done 23andMe and have no Cuban ancestry."
One family concealed that a woman who acted as a grandmother was romantically involved with the narrator's grandfather while he remained married to the narrator's biological grandmother, who suffered kidney disease. The affair split the three siblings, forcing them to choose sides. The woman and the grandfather lived together until their deaths, and one aunt had briefly been married to the woman's son. In a separate family, a grandmother claimed Cuban paternity for a paternal grandfather. DNA tests revealed no Cuban ancestry and that two brothers thought to be full siblings were actually half brothers, leaving paternity uncertain.
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